[Avila] Warning: Problem with libpthread on 0.6 release

[Burns, Darrell]

This bug took about two weeks to track down.  My pthreads were locking
up randomly, but because I was using sockets, I was certain I was doing
something wrong with the TCP stuff.

Well - it turns out that the pthreads were locking up.  I replaced the
libpthread.so.0 that was part of the romfs for gateworks Avila release
0.6, with an older libpthread.so.0 from a MontaVista distribution, and
the problem went away.

So - just a warning to let you know that the libpthread.so.0 has a
serious bug, at least in my environment.  If you are trying to track
down threading problems, even though it is not the usual first step,
mistrust this library.

Darrell Burns=20
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